Apparatus for conditioning and marking quills



APPARATUS FOR CONDITIONING AND MARKING QUILLS Filed Jan. 7, 1955 APPARATUS FQJR CONDITIONING AND MARKWG QUILLS Karl Heyman, Essex County, N. J., and Robert L. Carroll, Greenville County, S. (1., and Paul A. Renter, Union County, N. 5., assignors to Mona Industries, Inc., Paterson, N. .l.

Application January 7, 1955, Serial No. 480,572

2 Ciairns. (Cl. 118-212) This invention relates to an apparatus for conditioning quills wound with yarn with liquid compositions, and to the marking of yarn wound quills with marking solution.

The yarn wound quills as received on the receiving table of an Abbott Quiller are rolled forward by means of a metal bobbin pusher bar over a cork friction strip.

It is an object of this invention to provide yarn conditioning and marking means to an Abbott Quiller.

It is an object of this invention to provide the cork friction strip with a recessed well over which said yarn wound quills are rolled.

It is an object of this invention to provide the receiving table of an Abbott Quiller with a well having absorbent means therein adapted to engage the yarn of a wound quiller in passing over said well.

The conditioning of yarn prior to weaving sets the twist of the yarn and provides other desirable qualities to the yarn such as improved running qualities during weaving, increased breaking strength for cottons, less static electricity in the case of wools and synthetic fibers, greater pliability and less fly particles.

A great advantage of this invention is that it can be attached to the Abbott Quiiler machine with but a minimum of changes to the machine and the yarn on the quills thereafter obtained from the improved quiller machine will have the desirable properties mentioned above.

This invention will be described by means of an illustrative embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing in which;

Fig. 1 is a perspective partial view of the Abbott Quiller, broken away to show the manner of securing a well to the receiving table thereof,

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the well showing the manner of conducting a yarn wound quill over the well, said well being adapted to transfer indicia to said quill,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of an absorbent pad having V-shaped elevations of indicia thereon,

Fig. 4 is a partial view showing a quiller being pushed over an absorbent pad saturated with a conditioning liquid solution, and

Fig. 5 shows a modified slide plate for blocking out selected areas of the absorbent pad.

Referring to the drawing, the receiving table 10, preferably having a cork surface, of an Abbott Quiller is provided in this invention with a recessed well 11 cut into the table top and into the cork strip fixedly deposed on said table. T he Abbott Quiller has a bobbin pusher bar 12 which pushes the yarn wound quill 13 over the surface of well 11.

The receiving table of the Abbott Quiller may be further modified in the invention by the addition of a guide rail 14 adapted to engage the neck 15 of a wound quill to cause the axis of the quill shaft to be at right angles to the right angles to the rectangular Well 11 and to prevent the quill from sliding laterally or at an angle to its direction of travel.

2,828,715 Patented Apr. 1, 1958 The guide rail is optional since the quill 13 may be pushed over the well by the bobbin pusher bar alone, but the use of the guide rail effects a more accurate movement of the quill over the well.

The depth of the Welland the shape of the well may vary but a rectangular shape is preferred.

Preferably the well 11 is provided with a slidable cover plate 16. This cover plate may be rectangular or it may have a cut-out 17 disposed in its leading edge (Fig. 5), to expose selected areas of the well.

The well 11 is provided with an absorbent pad 18 of spongy material such as felt, synthetic sponge, etc.

Where the yarn wound quill is to be conditioned, for example, with an aqueous solution of a surfactant and other chemicals required in the process (Fig. 5), the length of the exposed well face may be adjusted to efiect an absorption of liquid solution in the desired amount which may fluctuate preferably from 3 percent to 15 percent of the weight of the yarn but amounts less than 3 percent and over 15 percent are operable. In such cases the speed of travel of the quill over the well may be regulated as well as the length of the well itself so that the quill will make one or several revolutions while passing over the well surface.

To regulate the length of the well surface exposed to the quill and hence of the absorbent pad, the cover slide plate 16 may be pushed over the well aperture to any selected degree.

The liquid supply to the well 11 may be from a conventional supply bottle 19 adapted by conventional means to supply a constant rate of flow to the well 11, or the supply of liquid in the well may be adjusted by conventional level control means (not shown) disposed in the well 11 or connected thereto. An over flow conduit 20 is supplied in a wall of well 11 and-leads to a reservoir 21. As shown in Fig. 2 the well 11 and reservoir 21 may be integral or they may be separate units.

Often it is desirable to mark wound quills in lieu of conditioning them. When such a result, i. e. the transfer of indicia, is desired the exposed surface of the absorbent pad 18 may be altered by elevating areas of said surface to produce indicia transferring areas 22 (Fig. 3) thereon.

or pad protrude through the apertures thereof and engage the yarn surface of a wound the well (Fig. 2). i

The indicia imprinted exposed surface of an absorb quill as it passes one pad 18 disposed in well 11 may be selectively uncovere jd f or covered by selectively sliding plate 16 over the well opening.

To facilitate sufficient pressure between a quill 13 and the absorbent pad 18 a lever arm 24 is provided with a weight 25 and disposed upon the top-rod 26 of wound quill 13. The lever arm 24 is secured, for example by clamping, to a fixed rod 27 which latter is fixedly secured to the frame of the quiller machine itself. Many other modifications for transferring indicia known to the art will become apparent upon reading this disclosure but all these variations fall within the scope of this generic invention.

Thus in lieu of a pad or sponge an absorbent velvet surface may be imprinted and disposed in the opening of Well 11. Hardened glue and water insoluble synthetic refins may be used as the indicia forming means on said ve vet.

asasms However, where a sponge is used the exposed surface is preferably channeled to provide projections constituting the desired indicia.

Also the absorbent pad may be substituted by an endless moving belt of felt carrying indicia and conditioning solution.

Having described the broad concept of this invention, other illustrative embodiments will readily occur to those skilled in the art but all these embodiments are deemed to be within the scope of the claims herein.

. We claim:

1. A device for conditioning yarn wound on conventional cylindrical quills having a neck and a tip comprising a longitudinal fiat horizontally disposed table having a suitable rectangular aperture therein whose edges fully engage the cylindrical quill wall, a rail disposed along one longitudinal edge of said table and adapted to engage the neck of said-quill to prevent lateral movementiof said quill, an absorbent rectangular pad having a flat top surface disposed in said aperture and adapted to engage tangentially said quill cylindrical surface, a conventional moveable flat pusher bar disposed transversally across said table and contactingly against said cylindrical quill surface engaging tangentially the entire cylindrical surface whereby conventionally produced linear movement of said bar pushingly produces a rolling motion of said quill over said aperture of said table, a longitudinal weighted hinged arm disposed over said table opposite and parallel to said rail and adapted to rest upon the quill tip thereby downwardly pressing said quill to produce a firm contact of the rotating quill cylindrical surface with said absorbent means, and means for filling said well with conditioning fluid.

2. The device of claim 1 comprising a slidable plate disposed over said aperture to selectively expose the area of said absorbent pad.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,667,390 Pedrazzo et al. Apr. 24, 1928 2,393,973 Chisholm Feb. 5, 1946 2,411,242 Beckman Nov. 19, 1946 2,411,243 Beckman Nov. 19, 1946 2,490,902 Goodwin Dec. 13, 1949 

